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Sanjay Gandhi

1946 - 1980

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Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 – 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Lok Sabha and was the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. During his lifetime, he was widely expected to succeed his mother as head of the Indian National Congress and Prime Minister of India, but following his death in a plane crash, his elder brother Rajiv became their mother's political heir and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India and President of the party after her assassination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sanjay Gandhi has received more than 6,696,161 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Sanjay Gandhi is the 9,729th most popular politician (up from 12,573rd in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from India (up from 471st in 2019) and the 114th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 9,729 out of 19,576. Before him are Dirk Jan de Geer, Ada, Countess of Holland, Azem Galica, Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Duke George of Oldenburg, and Mahapadma Nanda. After him are Manuel Kantakouzenos, Hadadezer, Amykos, Karl Verner, Pietro Mocenigo, and Josef Klaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 244. Before him are René Jacobs, Anatoliy Byshovets, Davorin Popović, Frank Welker, Penelope Wilton, and Yusuke Omi. After him are Mireya Moscoso, Jan Akkerman, Bruce Davison, László Polgár, Eduardo Camaño, and Daouda Malam Wanké. Among people deceased in 1980, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 122. Before him are Franco Basaglia, Erich Hückel, Barbara O'Neil, Pietro Nenni, Cecil Beaton, and Justas Paleckis. After him are Leopold Kielholz, Joy Adamson, Lucien Buysse, George Raft, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, and Hellmuth Walter.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 342 out of 1,861. Before him are Anish Kapoor (1954), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Wilfred Bion (1897), and Jim Corbett (1875). After him are Pulakeshin II (610), Guru Hargobind (1595), Bhavabhuti (null), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), and Kajol (1974).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 114. Before him are Sikandar Lodi (1450), Bahubali (null), Rajnath Singh (1951), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), and Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948). After him are Guru Hargobind (1595), Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), Lahiri Mahasaya (1828), and Skandagupta (500).

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